Crime Statistics for Chesham, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chesham in October 2024. There were a total of 119 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Chesham, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	40
Public Order	18
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Other Theft	13
Vehicle Crime	10
Shoplifting	6
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Burglary	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Other Crime	2
Drugs	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	119

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Chesham. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Chesham

We've taken the ten nearest places to Chesham and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Chesham has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Chesham	111
Pond Park (0.88 miles)	107
Codmore (0.88 miles)	95
Chessmount	85
Pednormead End (0.62 miles)	68
Chesham Bois (1.24 miles)	53
Waterside (0.62 miles)	40
Lower Bois (0.62 miles)	40
Botley (1.39 miles)	11
Tyler’s Hill (1.24 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Chesham?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Chesham and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Chesham	40
Pond Park	28
Chesham Bois	28
Codmore	25
Chessmount	23
Pednormead End	18
Waterside	13
Lower Bois	13
Tyler’s Hill	5
Botley	4

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Chesham?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Chesham to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Chesham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chesham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Chesham is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Vale	53
2	St Mary's and Waterside	41
3	Amersham-on-the-Hill	37
4	Ridgeway	33
5	Asheridge Vale and Lowndes	31
6	Newtown	24
7	Hilltop and Townsend	24
8	Little Chalfont	24
9	Amersham Common	13
10	Amersham Town	12
11	Chesham Bois and Weedon Hill	11

Which road in Chesham has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Chesham with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.